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Block or kaisho (楷書) styles are the most common and recognizable styles. Block styles are easily read and are noted for their angular form and their vertical and horizontal lines.
花鳥風月
kachō fūgetsu
Beauties of Nature
Flower, bird, wind, moon. Four of nature's most beautiful things in one phrase.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed, personally preparing the ink and brushing your art, which proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
花鳥風月, read kachō fūgetsu: flowers, birds, wind and moon.
The beautiful things of nature, and the pleasure of looking at them and making poems of them: the phrase carries both senses, and the second is the older. Four characters in two pairs, flowers and birds, the painter's subject, and wind and moon, the poet's; the pairs are Chinese, and Japan set them in this order as one phrase six hundred years ago; Sōgi, the master of linked verse, used it, and the haikai poets of the seventeenth century took it up, for the elegant world a poem is built from. The order is fixed, and the four-word literal is the standard English; the house title names the things, and the pleasure taken in them is the half this page puts back. Whether it is for the four things or for the pastime of enjoying them is yours.
花鳥風月 is a particularly beautiful expression as it is composed of four of nature's most beautiful creations which are 花 (read ka) meaning "flowers", 鳥 (read chō) meaning "birds", 風 (read fū) meaning "wind", and 月 (read getsu) meaning "moon".
A Japanese phrase that sets two Chinese pairs, flowers and birds, wind and moon, in an order the Chinese did not use; in Zeami's treatise on Noh by 1402, and in a primer and a war tale of about the same age, it names the arts a cultivated person pursues, and it names the beauty of nature itself as well.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 花鳥風月.
Delivery
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days. It ships by USPS Priority Mail from Master Takase's studio in Washington State, boxed and ready to hang, with a printed page giving the art's English, romaji and Japanese.
Sending it as a gift? Add your message at checkout and we will include it.
Shipping is calculated at checkout from your address; within the United States it is $13 to $23. We ship worldwide, and any import charges for your country are shown at checkout before you pay.
Every order is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. If your scroll arrives damaged, or we made an error, we replace it or refund you in full, including shipping. Refund policy
About Our Scrolls
Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase brushes your scroll by hand when you order it. Each scroll bears her red seal, 英利, and her signature.
The scrolls are 12 1/4" W × 43" H (31 × 109 cm) with woven damask borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, and we have worked with them for over two decades.
Eri Takase was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and holds the rank of Shihan, the highest rank in Japanese calligraphy, from the Bokuteki-kai and the Bunka-shodo. About Master Takase
